List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers
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This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame." The current list of Plenary and Invited Speakers presented here is based on the ICM's post-WWII terminology, in which the one-hour speakers in the morning sessions are called "Plenary Speakers" and the other speakers (in the afternoon sessions) whose talks are included in the ICM published proceedings are called "Invited Speakers". In the pre-WW II congresses the Plenary Speakers were called "Invited Speakers".
Overview
During the 1900 Congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert announced his famous list of Hilbert's problems.
At the 1954 Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, Richard Brauer announced his program for the classification of finite simple groups.
Alexander Grothendieck in his plenary lecture at the 1958 Congress outlined his programme "to create arithmetic geometry via a (new) reformulation of algebraic geometry, seeking maximal generality."
At the 1962 Congress in Stockholm Kiyosi Itô lectured on how to combine differential geometry and stochastic analysis, and this led to major advances in the 60s and 70s.
Speakers
1897, Zürich
1900, Paris
1904, Heidelberg
1908, Rome
1912, Cambridge (UK)
1920, Strasbourg
1924, Toronto
1928, Bologna
1932, Zürich
1936, Oslo
1950, Cambridge (USA)
1954, Amsterdam
1958, Edinburgh
1962, Stockholm
1966, Moscow
1970, Nice
1974, Vancouver
1978, Helsinki
1983, Warsaw
1986, Berkeley
1990, Kyoto
1994, Zürich
1998, Berlin
2002, Beijing
2006, Madrid
2010, Hyderabad
2014, Seoul
2018, Rio de Janeiro
2022, virtual
Most invited
This list inventories the mathematicians who were the most invited to speak to an ICM.
References
See also
Plenary Speakers (in Russian), contribution titles, and URLs
International Mathematical Union: Proceedings 1893-2022
External links
"International Mathematical Union (IMU)". mathunion.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
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